Improved clothes-drier



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. HUNT, on URBANA, ILLINOIS.4

Vnvieuo'vigo CLOTH ias- DRI E R;

Specification forrnngl p'rt of Letters Patent No. 35,6843- (latedj .Tjine 24, 1862. I I

Tol all whom, it may conrn.-

. y, Beitknown than-CHARLES A; HUNT-,of

`the city of Urbana', county of Champaign and Drier'withPecnliar Hinge Construction, of

which'the following is a description, reference being had tothe acoompanying drawings, and te the letters of Areference marliedthere'on, in` 'which Figure 1`is atop view, Fig. 2,-2. fronteleva- 4 1 tion, and Fig. 3 a side elevationyof wings..

lMy clothes horsemaybe either fxedito a Wall in a. sliding bar, C,or sta-nd upon a pedestal with cast-iron iee.

The essential parts ot'fthe rnaehine,l aside from the upright fastenings, e'onsist'of a heelhinge, 1'),l `whieh has .itsattachments or bear- `ings nponthe pedestal, or'on the slide-bar C, and'is designed to support a box-hinge,-E, which. plies between its jaws and swings later ally upon a rivet-axle. The hinge E, vwhich attaches as above, is a box whichopens ont from the pedestal orslide-bar C, having projecting lips, between which wooden fingers A- arexed by rivets passing through their ends and through the lips,leavingthe fingers A with Free meton laterally, sotheycan openand V Close. 'The fingers A are of wood and'somefour feet long, upon which the clothing is de signed to be hung for drying. The hinges areof cast-iron, and thus adapted to give not only free motion to the fingers, but a. lateral motion to all at the same time` so thatwhen 'not in use it can. be entirely closed up and lie CHARLES A. HUNT.'

Attest:

M.- LINDLEY, "HORNER W. Arens. 

